Re: logout takes ~50 seconds while running heavy IO

2009-08-03 Thread Erez Zilber
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Mike Christiemicha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: Mike Christie wrote: Mike Christie wrote: Mike Christie wrote: Mike Christie wrote: On 07/31/2009 07:43 AM, Erez Zilber wrote: I thought that this patch just reduces the timeout from 15 to 3. Does it also fix the 3

same volume two different hosts

2009-08-03 Thread nick
Hi All, I would like to knw if i can present same volume to two hosts? I am using Stonefly Voyager as SAN and the host would be Xen. Thanks in Advance Nick --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

same volume on two hosts

2009-08-03 Thread nick
Hi All, i would like to know if i can assign the same volume to hosts? I am using Stonefly Voyager as SAN and the host is Xen Server. Thanks in Advance Nick --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [RFC 0/2] new kfifo API

2009-08-03 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 03 August 2009, Stefani Seibold wrote: This is a proposal of a new generic kernel FIFO implementation. The current kernel fifo API is not very widely used, because it has to many constrains. Only 13 files in the current 2.6.30 used it. FIFO's are like list are a very basic thing

Re: logout takes ~50 seconds while running heavy IO

2009-08-03 Thread Mike Christie
On 08/03/2009 02:31 AM, Erez Zilber wrote: On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Mike Christiemicha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: Mike Christie wrote: Mike Christie wrote: Mike Christie wrote: Mike Christie wrote: On 07/31/2009 07:43 AM, Erez Zilber wrote: I thought that this patch just reduces the

Re: [RFC 0/2] new kfifo API

2009-08-03 Thread Mike Christie
On 08/03/2009 09:42 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Monday 03 August 2009, Stefani Seibold wrote: This is a proposal of a new generic kernel FIFO implementation. The current kernel fifo API is not very widely used, because it has to many constrains. Only 13 files in the current 2.6.30 used it.

Re: [PATCH 0/2] iSNS enhancements

2009-08-03 Thread Mike Christie
On 07/30/2009 10:37 AM, shyam_i...@dell.com wrote: 1) With the first patch we should be able to do the following - #iscsiadm -m discovery -t isns -l And all the target portals will get logged in. It also adds iface support to be able to login through multiple initiator portals. The iSNS

Re: [PATCH 2/2] bnx2i : Fix cid #n not valid issue

2009-08-03 Thread Mike Christie
On 07/30/2009 01:08 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: On 29 Jul 2009 at 21:50, Anil Veerabhadrappa wrote: +bnx2i_ep-ep_iscsi_cid = (u16) -1; As a matter of style: Wouldn't it be more logical to write (u16) ~0 instead? Casting a negative value to unsigned seems strange to me. Is there a MAX_U16

Re: logout takes ~50 seconds while running heavy IO

2009-08-03 Thread Mike Christie
On 08/03/2009 12:37 PM, Erez Zilber wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Mike Christiemicha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: On 08/03/2009 02:31 AM, Erez Zilber wrote: On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Mike Christiemicha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: Mike Christie wrote: Mike Christie wrote: Mike

RE: [PATCH 0/2] iSNS enhancements

2009-08-03 Thread Shyam_Iyer
-Original Message- From: open-iscsi@googlegroups.com [mailto:open-is...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Christie Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 10:46 PM To: open-iscsi@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] iSNS enhancements On 07/30/2009 10:37 AM, shyam_i...@dell.com

Re: same volume two different hosts

2009-08-03 Thread Donald Williams
Hello Nick, While an iSCSI SAN will not have any problem allowing multiple hosts to connect to the same volume, what it doesn't do is protect you from the resultant corruption. Each host will believe it owns that volume exclusively. Writes from one host won't be seen by the other host. They

Re: How many S/W iSCSI Initiators on same machine?

2009-08-03 Thread Donald Williams
Hello, I'm not sure what your question really is. Yes, you can have 6x GbE interfaces on different subnets and run iSCSI over them. What target are you using? Typically, your iSCSI SAN is on one subnet. It avoids the need to do IP routing. Which adds latency and can reduce performance.